
Traffic guitarist Dave Mason and country singer Bekka Bramlett stepped into big shoes and fell flat on their faces. Perhaps Mick Fleetwood and John McVie had presided over so many line-up changes they thought no one would notice, and in a way they were right, since nobody bought it. The band’s biggest stars, Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, had gone but still the juggernaut rolled on. It’s the album that everyone in Fleetwood Mac would rather you forgot. As the group release the major career retrospective album 50 Years: Don't Stop, we offer a definitive ranking of their back catalogue. However, they spun musical gold out of turbulence and their appeal remains perennial. Fleetwood Mac's creative and personal ups and downs, the most recent being Lindsey Buckingham being kicked out of the band (for the second time) in April 2018, are legendary in the music industry.
